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#686
Mark Johnson said:
The following ten letters are the top, most frequently-occurring, letters in the Wordle dictionary

E (most frequent), A (2nd most) , R , O , T , L , I , S , N , C (10th most frequent)

These ten letters can be arranged into two legal Wordle guesses: ACORN + STILE

It's those same ten letters, just in a different order.

Plug them into Wordle #346. Cowabunga!
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Yes, thanks Mark. I've known that since I was, like, 12 or something.
 
#687
PRR said:
It's a big world and much of it is ahead of us.
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#691
Playing a word-pair that contains E , A , R , O , T , L , I , S , N , C { specifically: CLEAN + TRIOS } gave

Wordle 347 3/6

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The letter frequency table of the Wordle dictionary is slightly different than the tables for English prose presented in the Wikipedia article and in various cryptography oriented websites (link 2) , (link 3) . In particular, the vowel "U" is not among Wordle's top ten, which disagrees with 90% of the published tables I consulted. Perhaps it's because 5-letter words (Wordle's dictionary) have a different distribution than all words of every length. Perhaps it's because Josh Wardle intentionally omitted all plural words ending in "S". Or perhaps it's because Wordle's dictionary contains no duplicate words, whereas written English text includes LOTS of duplicate words.
 
#692
Mark Johnson said:
Playing a word-pair that contains E , A , R , O , T , L , I , S , N , C { specifically: CLEAN + TRIOS } gave

Wordle 347 3/6

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I admit to being fascinated by the question of strategy that you've raised.
The issue is really about the best use of the second guess.
In the second guess, rather than retaining successful letters, your strategy is (to paraphrase) to pick all the top-ten letters that weren't in your first guess, ignoring what you learned from the first guess.
My strategy is simply to retain what I've learned right from the start, keeping greens in their place and moving yellows to a possible location. Right now, I can't persuade myself to change - though if you keep beating me I might reconsider. 🙂

Seriously, though, is one of these two strategies better than the other? And if so why? (Today's outcome doesn't actually provide evidence either way, as it was just chance rather than strategy that let me down.)
 
#693
ianbo said:
The issue is really about the best use of the second guess.
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Yes. I am like you whereby I don't wish to 'throw' any guesses as I'd love to do it in two. Mark's elimination method will usually eliminate his chance of getting it in two but increases his chances in future guesses. No mystery there.
What I am wondering is that if Mark were to get four out of five letters correct on the first guess, would he make up a word from the possible fifth letters or would he go for it? I am guessing he would determine that by the number of possible entries for the fifth letter.
Mark?
 
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#694
Cal: when I play golf (which I do about every 3 years or so), I follow a simple plan: Try To Shoot A 5 On Every Hole. When it succeeds, my score is 90 and I am thrilled. Hope that answers the question.

In the states there was a famous game strategist named Bill Walsh (20 years ago). His innovation was: for the first 25% of a game, to follow a pre-written Script, exactly and scrupulously, regardless of how well or poorly it performed. The idea was, he wasn't reacting to the current situation, he wasn't reacting to his opponent's play, he wasn't reacting to the score or the time-clock or anything else. So his moves were completely unpredictable and his opponents were often befuddled. We did X and then Bill Walsh did Y -- but Y was completely unrelated to X ! It taught us nothing. Fark!

Can the Bill Walsh idea be manipulated into something useful for Wordle / Quordle / sixteenSimulteneousWordle ? Worth thinking about when you're all alone in the smallest room of your house.
 
#700
The NYT Wordle game shades the "keyboard" to remind you, which letters you've already played:

Gray means: you played that letter and it does not appear in the solution

Yellow means: you played that letter and, although it DOES appear in the solution, you didn't put it in the correct position

Green means: you played that letter and it DOES appear in the solution and you DID put it in the correct position.

Does anyone know of a Wordle variant game (non NYT website) that also makes audible sounds when you hit the keyboard keys? I'm imagining something like:

BLAAAT!! loud and angry trombone sound when you hit a Gray key (letter already known not to be in the solution)​

ok! Alvin-and-the-Chipmunks high pitched pronunciation of the word okay, when you play a brand new letter that you haven't played yet​

ping! Happy good-job sound when you play a Green key in the right position​

click. Neutral keyboard click sound when you play a Yellow key​

I've noticed several Wordle players becoming rushed and hasty (adrenaline?) and making dumb mistakes, like playing a known-wrong (gray) letter two or three times. Maybe audible feedback of the type "that is wrong!!" would make them reconsider and perhaps, solve the puzzle sooner
 
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